USDA food recommendations have over 100 years of history—evolving and expanding based on updated nutrition research. Food guides are meant to be a simple, visual representations of complex scientific information. The first food guide was published in 1943, called the Basic 7, replaced in 1956 with the Basic Four. The original Food Guide Pyramid was published in 1992 followed by the MyPyramid version used between 2005 and 2011. The latest visual representation of the nutrition recommendation is MyPlate.